Yang is currently working as a Research Assistant in the Culture Lab headed by Prof. Ying-Yi Hong, after graduating from Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Yang is interested in combining different research methods to study interdisciplinary topics from diverse perspectives, such as studying relationship between stress and cross-culture exposure through both behavioral and cognitive methods, and she plans to pursue further degree in related field.

Research Interest

Social/Industrial-Organizational/Cognitive Psychology

Stress, emotion, decision making, sleep

Perception of arts

Yang's ultimate goal is to combine behavioral and cognitive methods to address life-related problems and hope that research outcomes could be helpfully applied in real-life settings.